Lot 165
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Apollo 17 - Gene Cernan Driving the Lunar Rover

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Large color photograph, 16 by 20 inches.

Catalogue Note

SIGNED and INSCRIBED by CERNAN at upper left corner: "Driving the lunar rover in the valley of Taurus-Littrow - "No better way to explore the Moon!" GENE CERNAN Apollo XVII-CDR Dec 1972."

Apollo 17 marked the final usage of a lunar rover (among other lasts), and further distinguished itself during the lengthy three lunar EVAs undertaken by Cernan and LMP Harrison Schmitt. The final Apollo mission holds the record for longest moon landing, longest total extravehicular activities, largest lunar sample collected, and longest time in lunar orbit.